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I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
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My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours
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What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
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So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
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it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.
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Never trust a man in a jumpsuit
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and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.
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I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
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I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.
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What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do? Catch butterflies
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Never get out of bed before noon.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
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a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )
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Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
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as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.
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My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.
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